October 2017 - Nilisha wins best poster award at MECC 2017Nilisha, Elliot and Daisy presented posters at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference and Nilisha won a Best Poster Award at the meeting. Congratulations!!

July 2017 - Poster PresentationsDaisy Oceguera and Ayaa Shanaa presented posters detailing their summer research work at Marquette University. Daisy was part of the NSF-REU program at Marquette and Ayaa was a part of the McNair Scholars Program. Great Job!!

June 2017 - Lab CelebrationsThe lab celebrated various milestones. Nilisha and Elliot passed their qualifying exams and are officially 'candidates' towards their PhD. Dr. Origanti has secured her independent tenure track position at Marquette and will be starting her own research group this Fall.Nilisha's paper has been accepted for publication.

May 2017 - New GrantThe lab has received a new 3-year grant from the Department of Energy.​

October 2016- Midwest Enzyme Chemistry ConferenceEdwin gave a talk at the 34th MECC conference.Nilisha Pokhrel and Elliot Corless (graduate students) presented posters at the meeting.

July 2016 - Parker's Paper is Accepted for PublicationParker's work on using the SSB protein from Plasmodium falciparum as a tool to monitor Rad51 disassembly by Srs2 has been accepted for publication in PLOS One. Congrats!

June 2016 - Nilisha Receives Two Travel AwardsNilisha Pokhrel, a graduate student in the lab has received two travel awards to attend the "International Genetic Code Expansion Conference and Workshop" at Oregon State University. She received a travel award from the Conference and the Charles O'Hara Scholarship Award from Marquette University. Congrats!

June 2016 - New High School StudentPratyusha Emkay, a junior high school student from Greenfield High School has joined the lab. Welcome!​

June 2016 - New Paper PublishedOur work with the Seefeldt lab has been published in Biochemistry. The results show that in the presence of Flavodoxin (as the reductant), phosphate release becomes the rate-limiting step in the electron transfer cycle. ang ZY, Ledbetter R, Shaw S, Pence NK, Tokmina-Lukaszewska M, Eilers BJ, Guo Q, Pokhrel N, Cash VL, Dean DR, Antony E, Bothner B, Peters JW, Seefeldt LC. Evidence that the Pi Release Event is the Rate Limiting Step in the Nitrogenase Catalytic Cycle. 2016. In press.​

May 2016 - New Undergraduate StudentsJessica Jungers and Sandeep Buddharaju are juniors at Marquette University and have joined the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome.​

March 2016 - New Graduate StudentsNilisha Pokhrel and Elliot Corless have joined the lab as graduate students. Welcome!​

February 2016 - Students Defend ThesisMark Soffe and Parker Davenport, two MS students in our lab, have successfully defended their thesis. Congratulations!​

October 2015 - Teach with SSB Project is Officially UnderwayOur laboratory teaching program with the SSB protein as a model system is finally in place. The course material and information can be found at the following website: www.teachwithSSB.com​

September 2015 - Parker and Elliot Presented Posters Students from our lab presented posters at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference held at Chicago.

August 2015 - NSF MRI Grant AwardedOur MRI grant was funded by the NSF to obtain an Analytical Ultracentrifuge (AUC) at USU. It was our Christmas wishlist :)

July 2015- Move to Marquette UniversityWe have now moved to Marquette University located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Our sincere thanks to everybody at Utah State University for supporting our research efforts over the last three years.​

March 2015 - Graduate Student Receives the Piette Scholarship from USU.Derek Harris, a graduate student in the lab has been awarded the 2015 Piette Scholarship at Utah State University. Congratulations

March 2015 - New NIH Grant AwardedThe lab has received a new 3 year R15-AREA grant from the NIH-NIGMS.

February 2015 - Capitol Hill PresentationsUndergraduate students, Elliot Corless and Mark Stoll, presented posters on their research at the 'Utah Research on Capitol Hill" event at Salt Lake City, UT on Jan 29th, 2015. Congratulations!

January 2015 - Article about undergraduate student research in our lab on USU TodayPlease click here to read the article.

January 2015 - New Students Join the GroupDerek Harris (graduate student) and Jessica Anderson (undergraduate student) have joined the group. Welcome!

December 2014 - Grant AwardedThe Antony Lab has received a "Research Catalyst" grant from USU to pursue exploration of the Sen1 helicase and its function in transcription termination.

November 2014 - Students Receive Five URCO GrantsFive undergraduate students from the lab: Dallas Elder, Mat Rasmussen, Elliott Corless, Dan Morris and Mark Stoll have received URCO grants. Please see the Student achievement section for more detail.

﻿September 2014 - Students Receive Poster AwardsJeff, Mark, Parker & Tanner, Matthew, and Tawnie presented their research at the 4th Annual Hansen Departmental Retreat.Elliot, Mat and Mark Stoll co-presented their SSB-teaching poster.Parker Davenport won the best poster award for undergraduate students and Matthew Radovan received an honorable mention. Congrats!!

September 2014 Edwin was invited to give a talk at Wesleyan University, Middletown CT during the 15th Annual Wesleyan Molecular Biophysics Program on Sept 18th at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown CT.Click here for a press release from the event.